Cyrea yolanda Canepari and Gordon, 2016

Canepari, Claudio, Gordon, Robert D. & Hanley, Guy A., 2016, South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XVII: Systematic revision of the genera Cyrea Gordon and Canepari and Tiphysa Mulsant (Hyperaspidinae: Brachiacanthini), Insecta Mundi 2016 (486), pp. 1-180 : 58-59

44. Cyrea yolanda Canepari and Gordon , new species

Description. Male holotype. Length 2.6 mm, width 1.9 mm; body somewhat elongate, convex. Dorsal surface with head weakly alutaceous, shiny, pronotum and elytron smooth, shiny. Color yellow except pronotum with long, dark brown basomedian macula extended more than 1/2 distance to apical pronotal margin, apex of macula deeply, widely emarginate with yellow; elytron with sutural and apical margins narrowly bordered with brown, sutural border slightly widened anterior to middle, 4 elongate, dark brown spots present, humeral spot elongate oval, discal spot elongate, somewhat rectangular, lateral spot on apical declivity small, irregularly rounded, nearly reaching lateral elytral margin, median spot on apical declivity large, elongate oval ( Fig. 244 ); ventral surface with head, prosternum, meso- and metaventrite black; abdomen yellowish brown except median 1/2 of ventrites 1-4 brown. Head punctures small, separated by a less than to about a diameter, each puncture as large as an eye facet; pronotal punctures larger than head punctures, separated by a diameter or less, elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by 1 to 2 times a diameter; metaventral punctures larger than on elytron, separated by a diameter or less. Clypeus emarginate apically, lateral angle rounded, surface with sparse, long pubescence. Eye canthus about 4 eye facets long, angled forward, apically rounded, yellow. Pronotum narrowed from base to apex, basal and anterior angles abrupt, lateral margin weakly curved, basal margin without trace of bordering line medially. Epipleuron narrow, grooved, not descending externally, deeply emarginate for reception of femoral apices. Protibia with narrow oblique angle, outer margin slightly arcuate, smooth, sponda slightly extended beyond angle. Carinae on prosternal process short, widely separated at apex, not convergent, incomplete, extended less than 1/2 distance to anterior pronotal margin. Metaventrite without setal tuft. Basal abdominal ventrite without setal tuft. Abdomen with postcoxal line on basal abdominal ventrite flattened medially along posterior ventrite margin, extended forward at apex, ventrite with sparse, long pubescence and small punctures sparse medially becoming denser laterally; ventrites 2-6 pubescent throughout, punctures fine, sparse medially, becoming denser laterally; 5th ventrite depressed in median 1/3, apex shallowly emarginate; 6th ventrite medially depressed, apex emarginate with lateral angle rounded. Apical tergite finely, densely punctured, apex weakly emarginate. Genitalia with basal lobe almost as long as paramere, asymmetrical, sides convergent to rounded apex; paramere Pvl, lower margin strongly produced medially, apex rounded ( Fig. 245, 246 ); sipho strongly curved in basal 2/3, without visible alae, basal capsule with inner arm short, narrow, apex rounded, outer arm wider and longer than inner arm, with accessory piece, basal border shallowly, broadly emarginate ( Fig. 247, 248 ).

Female. Unknown.

Variation. Unknown.

Geographical distribution. Bolivia.

Type material. Holotype male; Bolivia, Santa Cruz Amboro National Park , Los Volcanes. c. 1000m, S18 o 06': W63 o 36', 20/xi-12/xii/2004, General collecting, Mendel, H. & Barclay, M. V.L., BMNH (E)2004- 280. ( BMNH).

Remarks. The dorsal color pattern is unique to C. yolanda , but is quite similar to that of several other species of Cyrea having dark maculation on a pale surface. The short, widely spaced, incomplete prosternal carinae is a character are rarely found in other species of the genus.

Figures

Figures 238-253. Cyrea spp. 238-243) Cyrea devillii. 238) Habitus. 239) Phallobase ventral. 240) Phallobase lateral. 241) Sipho. 242) Enlarged siphonal apex. 243) Female genitalic plate and spermathecal capsule. 244-248) Cyrea yolanda. 244) Habitus. 245) Phallobase ventral. 246) Phallobase lateral. 247) Sipho. 248) Enlarged siphonal apex. 249-253) Cyrea jeannette. 249) Habitus. 250) Phallobase ventral. 251) Phallobase lateral. 252) Sipho. 253) Enlarged siphonal apex.